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Filtros JUYMA. Juan De Andrés Arias y Miguel Ángel Tornero
2022

Site-specific Instagram filters for some of the paintings exhibited in the Portrait Hall of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome





“Thanks to digital technology, several of the portraits of the first fellows observing us from this hall will sing the same song: Il giardino proibito by Sandro Giacobbe. This melodic tune was a major hit in the 1970s, traveling back and forth between both countries, and now it plays alongside the piano, as if part of a spontaneous gathering, one of those that have always emerged unexpectedly. (…) In this action, the voices of ghosts from a past that never happened become a critical revision of an era when the portrayed, the chosen ones, exuded a masculinity so powerful. Heard today, they remind us that 'what is as it is' is also something constructed”.  

Text: Marta Ramos-Yzquierdo  

Filtros JUYMA is an artistic duo formed by Juan De Andrés Arias and Miguel Ángel Tornero. Utilizing Instagram filters (which were available until January 14th, 2025, and are now defunct), they explore the intersection of emerging technological tools for domestic use and established forms of artistic production.







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